Jakob Stausholm is a Danish businessman, and the CEO of Rio Tinto Group since January 2021.
Stausholm attended Nyborg Gymnasium in Funen, Denmark. He earned a degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen.
Stausholm joined Rio Tinto in September 2018 as an executive director and chief financial officer. He succeeded Jean-Sébastien Jacques as CEO on 1 January 2021.
Before Rio Tinto, Stausholm was the Chief Strategy, Finance and Transformation Officer for Maersk. Prior to this, Stausholm worked for Shell for 19 years. From Wikipedia
